Marie Spångberg Holth

Marie Spångberg Holth (23 November 1865 – 23 November 1942) was the first woman to graduate in medicine in Norway, which occurred in 1893, when she graduated from the Royal Frederiks University of Christiania. She was the daughter of a poor watchmaker's widow. Eventually she married ophthalmologist Søren Holth and had five daughters, but two of them died at age one, and after that she gave up her practice. However, she continued to work in the Healthcare Commission until 1920, when she had to stop for health reasons.